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Petrie bags five in Kangaroos' intra-club hitout

Gav McGrath

DREW Petrie dominated Tuesday's North Melbourne intra-club match at Ballarat's Eureka Stadium with five goals at his former home ground.

The Kangaroos spearhead, who was drafted from the North Ballarat Rebels in 2000, kicked a goal in each of the first two quarters, and three in the third, before being rested in the final 20-minute quarter.

The North Melbourne ''blue'' team, which played in the club's traditional jumper and had the lion's share of the club's senior players, outclassed a ''red'' team that consisted of a number of Kangaroo-listed players reinforced with several from North's two VFL affiliates, North Ballarat and Werribee.

After keeping the red team goalless in the first half, the blue team won 16.9 (105) to 3.9 (27).

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Senior coach Brad Scott said the Kangaroos ''got what we wanted'' from the match.

''It was a good hitout,'' he said. ''It was very blustery, [but] intra-club games are mainly about getting match fitness.''

Veteran Brent Harvey started with the red team but it was the blue side that scored the first 11 goals of the match.

In addition to Petrie, Lindsay Thomas and Daniel Wells each scored two goals.

Aaron Black scored the red team's first major before switching sides and kicking another in blue later in the match.

Ben Cunnington was one of the best afield, with Kieran Harper, Aaron Mullett and Sam Wright also impressing.

American international rookie Eric Wallace struggled to find the ball in his first competitive outing, while forward Tom Curran was lively but inaccurate in front of goal.